Hip Surgery . . .

We have made it to day 4 after Torah's hip surgery on the 30th. Today is going to be the most challenging day since she spent the weekend hooked up to pain meds with an epidural and they shut that off this morning at 6. When I left her room she was exhausted from crying and trying to take a nap in spite of the pain. We have the option of going home today if she can tolerate the pain with only the meds given through her g-tube . . . but I'm not sure how she is going to do yet.

Going back to the surgery . . . We checked in around 9 and her surgery was going to be at 11:30, but Dr. C was running behind and Torah did not actually go back for surgery until 1:40. Once they got her into the operating room, the Anesthesiologist had a hard time starting an IV and ended up just putting in a central line in her neck. I think he had a hard time with her epidural too because he had to redo it after Dr. C was done with her hips. The surgery it self went very well! They were concerned a little bit with how much blood she was loosing, but did not give her a blood transfusion during the surgery. I think I was allowed back into the recovery room around 6:30 and we did not get her up to the floor until almost 8pm.

Day two started off ruff. She was so pale and really not responsive to much. After taking a blood sample they found her levels very low and ended up giving her 2 pints of blood that morning which helped her so much. She woke up and started being herself and she started to pee so much that her catheter could not keep up with her output and she filled the diaper and her sheets.
Day three was really not too eventful and not much different - so we were able to get some rest and prepare for today . . .

Thanks so much for all the prayers for her and me. It is never easy and I wish she did not have to go through all of this - but I am really hoping that it helps her so much down the road.